Adriano José Habed is an Assistant Professor in Gender and Postcolonial Studies at the Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, NL. He worked as a professional, between 2015 and 2018, for the European Association of Gender Research, Education, and Documentation (ATGENDER) and for the International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI). From 2018 to 2022, he conducted his Ph.D research on queer critique and its discontents at the University of Verona, IT, and Utrecht University, NL. The project, part of the INVITE doctoral programme, focused on such authors as Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Eve K. Sedgwick, Rita Felski, Robyn Wiegman, and José Muñoz. His publications include Blurring Boundaries: ‘Anti-Gender’ Ideology Meets Feminist and LGBIQ+ Discourses (co-edited with D. Beck and A. Henningen, Leverkusen: Budrich, 2023), Postcolonial Intellectuals in Europe: Critics, Artists, Movements, and their Publics (co-edited with S. Ponzanesi, London, Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), and the forthcoming Elements of a Queer (Post)Critique (Pisa: ETS).